Big Bug Attack

Amsterdam, NL | 2001 | 3 | 16mm

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Special Program: Disquiet American: The Animated Collage Films of Martha Colburn
Screening Room - Michigan Theater Mon, Jan 1, 0001 12:00 AM - 1:45 AM
A 15 minute Q&A with filmmakers in attendance will follow the screening.
Special Program: Disquiet American: The Animated Collage Films of Martha Colburn
Screening Room - Michigan Theater Fri, Mar 27, 2020 7:30 PM - 9:15 PM
A 15 minute Q&A with filmmakers in attendance will follow the screening.
Film Info
Runtime:3
Cast/Crew Info
Director:Martha Colburn

Description

An animated music video for Felix Kubin’s “Groscher Lausangriff,” featuring insects with faces of famous German spies flying about, while telephone tapping and ear-bugging techniques all flutter around in a rhythmic edit. Kubin best describes this: “The correct pronunciation would be ‘Grosser Lauschangriff,’ which is a technical term for a widespread political action of bugging people’s telephones. I swapped the ‘sch’ and the ‘s,’ so now it is ‘lausangriff,’ and ‘laus’ means ‘louse.’ A lice attack. The funny thing is that in English the word ‘bug’ has this double meaning of an insect and spying on people’s telephones.”